Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. With a series of examples, ranging from fairy tales to Mickey Spillane, Eco draws his readers in by making them collaborators in
View ArticleDialogics of Critique (Hardback)
As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural
View ArticleGuys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics
Guys Like Us considers how writers of the 1950s and '60s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity...
View ArticleQueering Medieval Genres (New Middle Ages)
Winner of the University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Researcher Award!!!Queering Medieval Genres proposes that, within the historical trajectory of many genres,...
View ArticleWriting Women's Literary History
Critically examining women's literary histories, this study applies to them the same self-conscious feminism that critics have applied to more traditional methods. The book points towards possibilities...
View ArticleReconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies (Hardback)
Three essays by Steven Mailloux, an influential literary critic, theorist, and advocate of cultural studies, are followed by ten essays discussing his ideas in terms of the shift in English departments...
View ArticleStylistics (The New Critical Idiom) (Volume 0)
Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. Providing readers with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis, this...
View ArticleCognitive Poetics - An Introduction
Cognitive poetics is essentially a way of thinking about literature. The reader is encouraged to re-evaluate all the categories used to understand literary reading and analysis.
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